
lillith665
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lillith665
@lillith665
Truth Pillager, Aeternal Quester of Life. Seriously, if you want a bio, I have more out there...*sigh* oh, redundancy, you mock me.









Therapy doesn’t harm children because it coddles them. Therapy harms kids because: - it colludes with dysfunctional parents to scapegoat them - it blames them for not adapting to a school system that’s bad for them

I was interested in pursuing child psychiatry until doing my rotation in residency. I discovered that many of the children were saner than the parents--but the parents had already identified the child as the problem, and we're not at all interested in looking at themselves. I realized that my belief in candor would be counterproductive in such a practice. Dysfunctional parents don't like to be called out, and I would surely be dismissed from many cases if I spoke the truth to the parents. And if I spoke the truth to the kids, and then they told the parents what I said, I'd be fired as well. I've never regretted my decision to work with adults instead.

90% of it is luck and I wish more people would be honest about it. You didn’t do anything special to meet your person. You don’t “earn” another human. Happy for you, but you got lucky and felt they were worth putting in the skill and work in maintaining the relationship.












